Posted on 11/28/2004 1:48:00 PM PST by kupia_kummi
Can pacifist old Europe survive Islam? Will Islam swamp France, Germany, and the rest of the secular socialist states of old Europe?
European culture is under siege irrespective of attempts at European unification into a "Christianized" United States of Europe. Liberalization, secularization, and the need for cheap labor brought about liberal immigration policies in some European states and the inauguration of assured cultural suicide. The result is the migration of millions of Islamic workers and their families into western Europe who have no respect for nor desire to adopt its culture as their own. This has heightened anti-Semitism and cultural conflict throughout the region for Islamic culture is neither European nor Christian in its values, ideals, or mores.
Christian and Islamic cultures are mutually incompatible religious systems . Adherents of Islamic culture devote themselves to making their religion and way of life the dominate culture of every land they enter. Once in political control they set about to minimize the freedoms of non-Muslims. The wars of the 21st century seem destined to be between Muslims and their Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist neighbors. Should Islam continue to grow in Western Europe at its present rate, within this 21st century it will become the dominate European religious and political force.
Do not expect Islamic immigrants to become westernized Europeans seeking democratic ideals such as equality for women and the freedom of religion and the press. Such freedoms do not exist in any true Islamic state. The Islamic persecution of Christian populations in Muslim countries is well known. Freedom for the indigenous Christian population in Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia are illusory. Ask yourself a basic question: What Islamic nation is a functioning democracy allowing all its citizens the freedom of religion? None.
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Does anybody recall the name of the book about the Crusades that debunks the numbers of Arabs killed in that conflict? I'm tired of hearing about the "slaughter" of Muslims by Christians in the Crusades. I want some facts to refute that claim.
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